J. Patrick O'Connor

J. Patrick O'Connor is the editor of Crime Magazine. He graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1967. He was a reporter and bureau manager for United Press International, editor of Cincinnati Magazine and an associate editor for TV Guide. He was editor and publisher of the Kansas City New Times, an alternative newspaper. Click here to read an interview with him on bookhitch.com. He is the author of The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal, which was published by Lawrence Hill Books in May of 2008. His book Scapegoat: The Chino Hills Murders and the Framing of Kevin Cooper was published by Strategic Media Books in 2012. Both books are available for purchase at amazon.com, barnesandnobel.com and bookstores throughout the United States. Scapegoat won the Silver medal in the 2013 Independent Publisher Book Awards and Bronze in ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year Award competition for True Crime books. To see an interview Prison Radio conducted with Pat O'Connor about the book, please go to http://www.youtube.com. Click here to contact him by e-mail.

by J. Patrick O'Connor Love, Murder and Corruption in Lancaster County: My Story by Lisa Michelle Lambert and David Brown, Camino Books, 2016, (388 pages). There are a number of subjects contained in this heartbreaking account of Lisa Lambert's tortuous odyssey through the...

Crime Magazine's Choice of True Crime Books by J. Patrick O'Connor One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Asne Seierstad (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015, 530 pages). To Norwegians, the most incomprehensible thing about the mass murder in...

Excerpt from the book The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal
by J. Patrick O'Connor
Chapter One
A Cause Celebre
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on death row since 1982. Over the years, as a result of his prison writings, the former radio reporter who prided himself on being "the voice...

January 5, 1971 – May 3, 2014
by J. Patrick O’Connor
In the preface to his amazing book on prison reform, Facing the U.S. Prison Problem 2.3 Million Strong: an Ex-Con’s View of the Mistakes and the Solutions, Shawn Ramey Griffith wrote, “By the time many...

The Boston Marathon bombings were the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since the World Trade Center catastrophe on September 11, 2001. That the suspected bombers are immigrants of Chechen heritage who had been nurtured for over a decade in Cambridge made it all the worse...

Crime Magazine's Choice of True Crime Books
by J. Patrick O’Connor
Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr Teamed up to Take on American’s First Sensational Murder Mystery by Paul Collins (Crown Publishers, 2013, $26). Listeners...

Updated May 8, 2013
Helvetic Airways aircraft at the Brussels international airport (Photo: Associated Press)
In a daring, commado-style operation, eight masked, heavily armed gunmen pulled off a lightening quick heist of more than $50 million worth of diamonds. ...

Revised April 8, 2013
A month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, President Obama called for sweeping legislation to stem “the epidemic of violence” confronting the United States. The next day, the National Rifle Association called the President’s proposal to...

Other Voices TV: Executing Justice from PPJC Videos on Vimeo.
A conversation with J. Patrick O'Connor author of SCAPEGOAT: The Chino Hills Murders and the Framing of Kevin Cooper.
Kevin Cooper was convicted of the brutal murders of a Chino Hills, California family and a...

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With the purpose of writing about true crime in an authoritative, fact-based manner, veteran journalists J. J. Maloney and J. Patrick O’Connor launched Crime Magazine in November of 1998. Their goal was to cover all aspects of true crime: Read More